2025 Acura Integra Type S

[Blueprint]

Pick this up yesterday... A full week of immaturity ahead 

[Oliver]

Very nice colour!

[Blueprint]

Yup, that blue really pops! And so does the triple exhaust !!

The guy before me configured the "Individual" setting this way: suspension at "comfort" (a very relative comfort), everything else at "Sport +". No edit needed 

Best of all, with a stick, you can put the thing in its track-worthy settings but you're always in full control of the revs. Fuel economy is in the 10's so far, driving like it like it's meant to. Clutch is easy-peasy in traffic, easier on my feet in fact than constant braking with an automatic. Trunk is HUGE.

Not a great highway car though - 3,000 rpms at 125 km/h, 2,400 at legal. Even in 6th the things sounds as wound up as sport bike on the highway, ready to pounce. Front seats are terrible, not nearly as good as what one gets in a cheaper WRX.

[Blueprint]

One of the guys has one, right?

[Gurgie]

One of the guys has one, right?

Johnnymac has one on here

[Blueprint]

WFH in my basement office, but the thought of this just sitting in the driveway today was just too much. I had a driving lunch. Wet pavement, so caution was de rigueur. Dip too much in it at 50 in 2nd and the front tires break loose - fun!

[Blueprint]

One of the guys has one, right?

Johnnymac has one on here

I have to reach out to him ahead of writing the review. This car is one heck of a mistress, but I'm curious to see how it is as a wife.

[Johnnymac]

One of the guys has one, right?

Johnnymac has one on here

I have to reach out to him ahead of writing the review. This car is one heck of a mistress, but I'm curious to see how it is as a wife.

Yeah that's me, white with red interior.  Have just over 9,000 kms and will be a year in a week or so.  Lifetime fuel economy so far has been 7.7L/100kms.

That individual setup is pretty much what everyone uses for daily driving.  Sometimes I'll go into comfort mode if I'm on a longer road trip highway run.

Was great in the winter, better fuel economy even.  Overall, it's been the best daily driver do everything car.  At my first oil change got them to do the recall on some spring in the steering column.

You are a bit harsh about the seats but I won't argue they are the best, maybe the best if you are a bigger person with less mobility.  Meaning an overweight middle age dude that has bad knees and back.  So pretty much your typical American buyer of this vehicle.

Ask me anything and I will give you the honest answer.

[Blueprint]

Look at what was next to it when I picked it up 

[Blueprint]

@johnnymac, I'm the "2x4" type, 6' 180 lbs and not much padding down there    Gotta say these are the hardest cushions I've tried in quite a bit. At this price point, I really expected better seats. Heck, the Honda Fit had better seats. The Recaros I had in my last WRX were hard, but well-shaped. But I was recently spoiled by the thrones in the RDX Platinum Elite A-SPEC, in which I spent a 3 hr stint from the Gatineau hills. The Type-S is worthy of such good seats.

[Firm]

I'll never really understand why manufactures moved away from soft cushion seats to increasingly hard cushions? Is there some safety reg or something driving it? Cost? I'll sit in one of my 20 year old Cadillacs, or even an F-body easily for 5-6 hours and be comfortable the whole time, and step out without any cramps or pain. Anything more recent, even most luxury cars, I get maybe 2 hours and start feeling sore points.

Similar for inflatable Lumbar....My 96 Pontiac has inflatable lumbar, but loads of mainstream stuff today doesn't have it.

[Johnnymac]

@johnnymac, I'm the "2x4" type, 6' 180 lbs and not much padding down there    Gotta say these are the hardest cushions I've tried in quite a bit. At this price point, I really expected better seats. Heck, the Honda Fit had better seats. The Recaros I had in my last WRX were hard, but well-shaped. But I was recently spoiled by the thrones in the RDX Platinum Elite A-SPEC, in which I spent a 3 hr stint from the Gatineau hills. The Type-S is worthy of such good seats.

Well the seats I actually found pretty similar in hardness to the Civic SI and the two performance VWs prior.  Maybe my butt is just used to a harder cushion.

Also, road noise isn't any better or worse than all those cars but then that's what you typically get in a performance car, at least at this price point.  The stereo I find to be pretty decent, better than the Fender, Beats, and Bose I had in the previous fun cars, but not crazy or better, just marginal.

I didn't have any comfort issues last October when I picked it up in Montreal and drove the 9 hours home to Fredericton, but then I always have to sit sort of side saddle with my legs on one side of the wheel well or my hips get tight followed by my lower back.  But that's in almost any vehicle that I drive for a long journey.  But strangely not when I'm a passenger.

As far as why did manufacturers go with harder cushions, maybe because the softer ones don't age as well for bigger people and with how big North Americans are nowadays maybe it has to do with that?  Just speculating.

[RRocket]

Meaning an overweight middle age dude that has bad knees and back. 

I heard you were talking about me, dick.

[Gurgie]

Meaning an overweight middle age dude that has bad knees and back. 

I heard you were talking about me, dick.

       

[Gurgie]

I'll never really understand why manufactures moved away from soft cushion seats to increasingly hard cushions? Is there some safety reg or something driving it? Cost? I'll sit in one of my 20 year old Cadillacs, or even an F-body easily for 5-6 hours and be comfortable the whole time, and step out without any cramps or pain. Anything more recent, even most luxury cars, I get maybe 2 hours and start feeling sore points.

Similar for inflatable Lumbar....My 96 Pontiac has inflatable lumbar, but loads of mainstream stuff today doesn't have it.

I wonder if they went to stiffer seats specifically for bad bags to offer more support? Or would it be something to do with the side airbags in the seats nowadays?